8.05.2009

a minor footnote in the history books that has been seemingly washed away over time... the brad dorfman-backed original incarnation of what would later be known as stereo, this is blue.

i find it interesting that the vision honcho had the basic elements of two* of skateboarding's more-enduring companies in the summer of '92 and managed to drive them both into the ground in little over 6 months.

*(the other brand being TV, essentially an earlier version of Toy Machine with Ed and Mike V)

That Cales sequence in the blue ad up top was a little rough so I decided to include a second bs heel for your viewing pleasure.You're welcome.

Cool post. I remember that J. Lee backside lipslide ad- classic style. I don't want to be accused of sacrilege, but it seems like that's around the time that he stopped trying. As much as I liked A Visual Sound, I got the feeling he was mostly doing the same tricks he'd had on lock for years.

I remember seeing Stephen do that backside 180 heelflip. Pretty sick to say the least. I remember when he came to SF and hung out for a while. He pretty much had all the heelflip tricks on lock. First person I saw do a heelflip varial to tailslide.